Had a great time meeting with drummer and dean of Temple University Japan, Kirk Patterson for the Nikkei Weekly interview. His band can often be seen at Rock Factory.

Fareed Zakaria, a columnist for TIME writes, "A major global consulting firm has reviewed Iraq's state-owned enterprises and estimated that it would cost $100 million dollars to restart all of them and employ more than 150,000 Iraqis -- $100 million. That's as much money as the American military will spend in Iraq in the next 12 hours." -- TIME, March 5th, 2007.